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Kim Jong Un is “not that kind of person” who will shoot missiles at the United States, the North Korean leader said, according to a briefing held Sunday by the South Korean presidential office. Kim, who met with South Korean President Moon Jae-in in an historic summit at … Read more via...

Lee Jae-Yong, the Vice chairman of Samsung, has been arrested in connection with a wide-ranging scandal in South Korea. According to the BBC, a South Korean court, said it "acknowledged that it was necessary to arrest [Lee] in light of a newly added criminal charge and new evidence." This is...

The frontrunner to be South Korea's next president has apologised after sparking a public uproar for jokingly likening the skin colour of an African scholarship student to coal. Kim Moo-sung, the leader of the country's ruling conservative Saenuri Party and the leader in polling ahead of the...

A university professor, identified as Jang in South Korean has been jailed on Thursday for 12 years for forcing a student to eat human faeces and drink urine during a two-year period of physical and psychological assault. The sentence was two years more than had been demanded by prosecutors...